Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen118k followers

Founder and CTO @chia_project Back in the day created BitTorrent For business and media enquiries mail hello@chia.net

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1	Mar 26, '11	"90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs"	29×	0	3.5k	3.8k	2
2	May 5, '23	Ethereum was supposed to be the 'World Computer', with infinite on-chain scaling allowing people to use it as a real computational resource. This was always an obviously dumb idea.	24.2×	297k	1.3k	323	216
3	Aug 20, '23	I'm taking a break from Twitter. Current writing is on	9.5×	116k	277	70	30
4	Jun 7, '22	Chesa Boudin's recall is being portrayed as a debate about approaches to criminal justice. It isn't. It's liberal San Franciscans recalling a liberal DA because he sucks at his job	9.2×	0	2.5k	261	131
5	May 13, '21	@elonmusk If you're concerned about the environmental impacts you should sell all your Bitcoin which will increase the supply thus reducing the price, the rewards for mining, and t	5.2×	0	1.6k	106	8
6	Apr 1, '23	One of my happiest memories of having young children is taking them skydiving	4.9×	61k	447	28	6
7	Oct 23, '21	Farming is much, much better than mining	4.8×	0	954	212	35
8	Aug 9, '19	Twitter shows that relentless negativity is toxic. Instagram shows that relentless positivity is toxic.	4.6×	0	1.2k	229	28
9	Jan 29, '23	@NoCapCapitalLLC It's a clothing store	4.5×	55k	728	3	1
10	Apr 10, '23	A whole lot of the investors freaking out claiming the SEC is involved in overreach no one could have foreseen refused to invest in my project because we wouldn't do an ICO. Not on	3.9×	48k	363	91	6
11	Sep 30, '20	I can confirm that Justin Sun is every bit the scumbag this article paints him to be	3.8×	0	885	133	81
12	Jul 25, '19	Anybody know if Justin Sun is hard up for cash? He isn't letting the last payment for BitTorrent get out of escrow.	3.8×	0	750	162	14
13	Jan 22, '19	I'm no longer in any way affiliated with BitTorrent and have never been affiliated with Tron or Justin Sun	3.5×	0	986	134	3
14	May 12, '22	People seem to have learned that risk free 20% annual interest is not a thing. Next they're going to have to learn that risk free 10% annual interest is not a thing.	3.5×	0	1.1k	78	28
15	Mar 3, '21	It's a bit emotional for me to talk about this, but I will say that Len posted pseudonymously on the cypherpunks list constantly, including at least one fleshed-out and long-lived	3.4×	0	667	161	112
16	Jan 20, '25	Please let CoinGecko know that Chia/XCH is #MadeinUSA	3.2×	39k	450	124	6
17	Nov 19, '22	There's a myth in the general public that Know Your Customer programs are important for banking. This is incorrect (thread)	3.0×	0	576	134	117
18	Oct 12, '22	Good morning everyone. It's my birthday today.	2.9×	0	669	21	0
19	Mar 2, '18	Cryptocurrency centralization is like harvesting metal off a bridge: A slippery slope of free money which works great until suddenly it catastrophically doesn't	2.9×	0	705	184	3
20	May 14, '21	Update on Chia pooling protocol development: We're working on the whole shebang: plotting, pooling, GUI, and testing end-to-end on testnet. Unfortunately it won't be ready by this	2.8×	0	707	93	7
21	Aug 9, '22	Good morning. Everyone who's been trying to contribute to Bitcoin but is frustrated by the ossification and maximalism is welcome to try out Chia which is based on all the same pri	2.7×	0	517	209	8
22	Nov 25, '19	Here's Vitalik's opinions about the state of technology around cryptocurrencies. As you might expect, I think much of this is wrong-headed, and will explain (thread)	2.7×	0	477	111	133
23	May 21, '21	Chia release 1.1.6 out, lots of improvements in this one	2.6×	0	679	76	2
24	Jan 10, '23	Good morning everyone	2.6×	32k	258	9	0
25	Oct 27, '21	If you like Chia show your support by putting a seedling emoji 🌱 in your profile name	2.5×	0	486	93	0
26	Feb 24, '21	If you want to farm Chia, here's your starting point	2.5×	0	507	58	42
27	Jan 24, '18	For those of you new to the proof of stake game: Most existing proof of stake systems deployed in the wild have a single majority stakeholder who runs them as a benevolent dictator	2.4×	0	575	158	1
28	May 29, '21	We're going to have a session on Chia Pools for Pool Operators on Jun 2 at 9am PST at	2.4×	0	486	75	8
29	May 14, '22	People sometimes ask what are the real use cases of cryptocurrencies. This is an honest question. I used to ask it myself. When they say the answers they're getting are bad they're	2.4×	0	407	118	103
30	Oct 8, '24	It doesn't matter who Satoshi is. What matters is the future. We at Chia are carrying the torch for the research program which was started with Bitcoin. Sadly the work on Bitcoin i	2.3×	29k	496	162	21
31	Jul 8, '21	Chia pooling protocol is out!	2.2×	0	580	84	3
32	Aug 20, '18	Working 120 hours weeks doesn't make you more productive. It just makes you a hot mess.	2.2×	0	659	77	5
33	Jul 3, '18	@paulkrugman Ripple isn't actually a cryptocurrency, it's a centralized token accounting system, of the sort which any idiot could have set up 20 years ago.	2.2×	0	597	94	9
34	Aug 13, '19	Bitcoin isn't outperforming altcoins because of 'sound money' or 'network effects'. It's outperforming because it has a core development group who are out-executing the competition	2.2×	0	548	64	3
35	Nov 9, '22	Good morning everyone. The sun is shining, the Chia blockchain is chugging along, and there continues to be no Chia investors capable of dumping tokens on the market	2.1×	0	516	94	3
36	May 16, '21	For some odd reason the 'Chia burns out hard drives!' is getting repeated as the fashionable fud. This is odd, because for the most part it's just plain wrong (thread)	2.0×	0	437	77	34
37	Jun 7, '22	Worrying about how the perpetrators of these crimes are mostly poor and caring about their supposed backstory isn't criminal justice reform, it's just stupid. The vast, overwhelmin	2.0×	0	635	53	14
38	Jan 12, '22	We're making decentralized defi	2.0×	0	449	110	7
39	May 6, '21	Launch estimate update for chia pooling protocol: Currently the 17th of this month for both plot to pool and a pool prototype being out	2.0×	0	492	64	17
40	May 31, '21	People are asking me (a) Why do you need a pre-farm? and (b) Why don't you have pools working already? The answers are (b) Because it's been less than a month before we suddenly ne	1.9×	0	417	47	11
41	May 13, '21	Free mojos!	1.8×	0	419	71	9
42	Jul 18, '21	People keep asking why I don't talk about the price of Chia having gone down. The same reason I didn't talk about the price doubling before that. It's because I'm concerned with bu	1.7×	0	477	34	2
43	Mar 25, '23	Good morning everyone. Chia continues to be non-toxic	1.7×	21k	330	36	0
44	Oct 30, '21	Some issues with ETH2 consensus "we obtain a third attack which allows an adversary with vanishingly small fraction of stake to cause even long-range consensus chain reorganization	1.7×	0	338	64	45
45	Jul 25, '19	@crypto_skillz @danheld My source for this is that I don't have the fucking money and the escrow agency says they haven't gotten signoff. What's your source?	1.7×	0	481	43	2
46	Oct 28, '25	The weird thing in Chia is that everything except coin price is going super well. Lots of things are on the cusp of shipping.	1.6×	20k	315	86	5
47	May 21, '22	When people accuse us at Chia of being 'greedy' here's the parts of the coin allocation they're complaining about: Airdrop to other coin holders: 0% Given to influencers for promot	1.6×	0	405	65	3
48	Apr 7, '17	I'm not exactly 'pro-core': I'm anti-bullshit and core has been consistently reasonable and their detractors have been consistently insane	1.6×	0	318	129	0
49	Mar 19, '23	Good morning everyone. Happy Chia 2nd anniversary	1.5×	19k	333	49	0
50	Jun 30, '21	Almost there with pool protocol!	1.5×	0	378	55	1
51	Jun 3, '22	Before you go criticizing crypto by saying it's worse than traditional banking because it's put together with chewing gum and duct tape you should probably know that the whole bank	1.5×	0	406	52	7
52	Jul 8, '21	An explanation of official pooling protocol	1.5×	0	307	52	4
53	Feb 2, '22	Chia's first patent granted (Don't worry, everything we do is Apache 2 licensed so it's open patents)	1.5×	0	344	79	2
54	Jun 30, '22	Good morning everyone. For those wondering why Chia price seems negatively correlated with Bitcoin price: I have no idea either. The price does what it feel like. I keep working on	1.4×	0	406	37	1
55	Oct 21, '16	Your password is insecure. Please capitalize the first letter and add a digit to the end.	1.4×	0	272	132	0
56	May 18, '21	I'll be doing a podcast on Clubhouse on Wednesday at 11am	1.4×	0	331	28	38
57	May 12, '22	Proof of Stake is decentralization theater	1.4×	0	385	45	10
58	Jun 11, '21	New Chia plotter is quite a bit faster	1.4×	0	271	45	16
59	Jun 7, '22	What's needed is a deprioritization of victimless crimes which should allow for more resources to go after victimfull crimes. Shoplifting and bike theft are extremely victimfull cr	1.4×	0	464	16	4
60	Dec 6, '17	Top chess engine gets stomped by one made by the Deepmind team	1.3×	0	254	99	0
61	Mar 19, '21	Mainnet is live!	1.3×	0	316	64	9
62	Jan 26, '18	Serious academic study of how to build, route over, and maintain Lightning Network is now very much a thing. Next actually using it will be a thing, and maybe someday the doubters	1.3×	0	346	75	0
63	Jun 7, '22	San Francisco has truly gone downhill, and in worse ways than other cities. Retail stores shutting down because people openly loot all the inventory off of shelves and drug dealing	1.3×	0	439	25	4
64	Oct 16, '24	In crypto there's a common sentiment of 'I got rich which proves that I'm smart' which is, let's be honest, a thing a stupid person would say.	1.3×	16k	275	48	12
65	Jun 29, '22	Good morning everyone. Big announcements today.	1.3×	0	354	25	0
66	Oct 30, '25	There's a campaign of malicious lies on Coinmarketcap's forum, so I'd like to reiterate: We at Chia are hard at work, everything we're building is real, all the projects we've said	1.3×	16k	316	94	8
67	Jan 10, '21	@ciphergoth @brokep @nickdothutton Rumor has it TPB uses some fancy decentralized technology to lower the load	1.3×	0	437	16	5
68	Jun 18, '22	My suggestion as always is to not worry about coin price. Daily undulations are mostly noise, focus on building technology and a strong foundation for future value.	1.3×	0	361	44	5
69	Oct 22, '21	Chia's netspace is still over 35 Exabytes and trending stable to up. There are several hundred thousand full nodes. The consensus cannot be stopped.	1.2×	0	309	41	3
70	Jun 17, '18	The EOS screwup is not 'normal growing pains'. Not having a testnet is gross incompetence. Even if they deploy a testnet, they have lots more gross incompetence waiting in the wing	1.2×	0	313	67	1
71	Jun 8, '21	Chia plotting demands are causing the quality of SSDs to improve	1.2×	0	273	33	8
72	Nov 23, '22	Good morning everyone. The Chia blockchain continues to chug along	1.2×	0	335	30	1
73	Feb 11, '19	Dear Americans: Please stop being obsessed with entertainment industry awards ceremonies and form your own opinions about what's good	1.2×	0	378	31	3
74	Jun 20, '22	Good morning everyone	1.2×	0	320	20	0
75	Aug 13, '21	Here's my attempt at hype: Chia is getting smart coins in negative three months. And thanks to the magic of negative time it's being done without a hard fork. Any journalists want	1.2×	0	304	44	3
76	Sep 23	It lives! I've been slammed working on this for a long time	1.2×	15k	237	72	7
77	Aug 29, '18	Augur is a product which people want people to want but nobody wants.	1.2×	0	298	41	3
78	Jul 1, '22	Good morning everyone. One neat and innovative part of the Chia NFT standard is it allows trades to be done directly on chain, either peer to peer or facilitated by distributed exc	1.1×	0	288	50	2
79	Feb 26, '25	We've been talking to the SEC, presenting the case for useful crypto applications and making clear what 'decentralized' means	1.1×	14k	314	128	11
80	May 6, '21	This is a graph of Chia's netspace growth to date. It looks normal until you realize that the Y axis isn't absolute size, it's daily percent increase.	1.1×	0	259	30	6
81	Feb 22, '25	A few billion stolen here, a few billion stolen there, eventually you're talking real money. Custody is job #1 of smart money, but people don't get excited about it. They want more	1.1×	14k	302	99	2
82	Jun 18, '22	Chia FAQ: Why did the price of Chia go up/down today? 🤷 Will the price of Chia go up/down tomorrow? 🤷 When is the next big Chia announcement? Soon	1.1×	0	294	37	0
83	May 27, '21	Chia already has taproot and graftroot in the standard transaction format	1.1×	0	274	36	3
84	Sep 15, '22	Good morning everyone. The sun has risen, the Chia blockchain continues to run without a hiccup, and the farmers are still getting paid.	1.1×	0	295	42	1
85	Dec 19, '21	We're hiring people to do smart coin development at Chia. Don't worry if you don't have any Chialisp experience, nobody else does either	1.1×	0	252	58	5
86	Jun 25, '22	If Ethereum hadn't gone down their whole Proof of Stake misadventure they'd have the option to switch to Proof of Space and Time right now, which is both proven and actually decent	1.1×	0	272	45	9
87	May 14, '21	Somehow a rumor got started that k32 will no longer be supported. This is completely untrue! k32 will continue to work for years if not forever!	1.1×	0	316	27	1
88	Apr 8, '19	Turns out 1% of all devices on the internet are running an FTP server which can be logged into with the user and password both 'admin'	1.1×	0	311	29	10
89	Nov 19, '22	People talk about KYC like it's sacrosanct. It is not. It's a program which should have been cancelled long ago on its own merits and discussing it in the realm of cryptocurrency i	1.0×	0	303	33	6
90	Jul 5, '21	Just because you've managed to fool your Chia client UX into saying you've got lots of space doesn't mean you're going to get lots of rewards from the network. Also making a fake s	1.0×	0	265	18	3
91	Nov 14, '21	Congratulations to Bitcoin for joining the club of UTXO-based cryptocurrencies which have taproot enabled.	1.0×	0	308	22	4
92	Nov 25, '21	Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Chia continues to chug along with the reliability of a truly decentralized system.	1.0×	0	303	27	0
93	Jan 22, '25	Chia based stock splitting is going to be amazing	1.0×	12k	288	91	7
94	Jun 21, '22	Good morning everyone	1.0×	0	270	13	0
95	Sep 5, '21	Thanks to everyone who participated in the reddit discussion of what the XCH single character symbol should be. The winner is the seedling emoji: 🌱	1.0×	0	266	28	2
96	Jun 7, '22	The thing which is awful about Boudin, and what worried me even before he started work, is his bizarre misunderstanding of criminal justice reform. He talks about deprioritizing 'q	1.0×	0	344	11	3
97	Jul 4, '18	Despite what the ripplesplainers claim, XRP is pronounced 'Ripple'. Ripple ripple ripple. It also isn't any more decentralized than a web site which has mirrors.	1.0×	0	263	32	1
98	Jun 7, '22	My hope is that whoever succeeds Boudin makes a big point of prioritizing crimes based on the amount of damage they do and the amount of deterrent effect of going after them. This	0.9×	0	335	7	1
99	Jun 7, '22	There's also people who commit crimes because they're violent and crazy. Those people need to be locked up. Sure, some number of them have mental illness and treating that is good.	0.9×	0	316	11	0
100	May 24, '21	@AWice Ethereum is more like Altavista	0.8×	0	252	12	2
101	Jun 7, '22	A small amount of throwing the book at a few people for doing them would dramatically reduce the problem (and in the case of bike theft would likely literally get rid of most of th	0.8×	0	255	6	3

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